Workshops
Amy Siple’s healthcare workshops offer focused education for nursing conferences, nurse education events, and healthcare team development. A national healthcare speaker and nurse practitioner with more than 25 years of experience caring for older adults, Amy brings a clinical and leadership perspective to four workshops: Leading with Care: A Journey to Nurse Leadership Excellence Workshop, Mitigating Workplace Violence, Physical Assessments of Older Adults, and Comprehensive Dementia Care Workshop.
Explore these nursing workshops to find a session that supports your audience’s goals in nurse leadership, workplace safety, older adult assessment, or dementia care.
Leading with Care: A Journey to Nurse Leadership Excellence Workshop
Leadership is a role that nurses are expected to fulfill, regardless of their job title and experience…but many nurses are not prepared. You are expected to lead and manage care as soon as you graduate…but you may not have the skills. The development of leadership skills and the associated learning can be challenging, especially for less experienced nurses and those at the beginning of their careers. In addition, the pressures of nursing leadership can become overwhelming. Historically, the time and stress constraints have led to a great deal of burnout.
In this comprehensive course, you will develop new leadership skills. We will focus on effective communication techniques, explore leadership styles, and effective ways to motivate and retain your team. Stress and time management skills will also be addressed as we give you tools to become the nurse leader you were meant to be.
Imagine if you:
Were suddenly assigned the shift manager position… and felt totally unprepared.
Noted an opportunity to apply for a leadership position but feared you did not have the necessary skills.
Faced a natural disaster that overwhelmed your institution and you needed to act fast to organize and lead.
Had to implement a major change at your institution and didn’t know how to get your team to accept it.
Faced opposition and conflict from people on your team and you did not know the best way to address it.
This Workshop Will:
- Unlock Your Leadership Potential: Discover the key qualities and strategies that will empower you to become a more effective and confident nurse leader.
- Comprehensive Leadership Training: Dive into in-depth modules covering leadership styles, communication, problem-solving, and more, all tailored to the nursing profession.
- Real-World Scenarios: Gain practical insights through real-life nursing scenarios, equipping you to lead effectively in the healthcare environment.
- Expert Faculty: Benefit from the expertise of a seasoned nurse leader, national speaker, and Certified John Maxwell leadership speaker, leader and coach will guide you through each module with real-world experience.
- Nurse Leadership Toolbox: Build a comprehensive toolkit of leadership skills, including conflict resolution, team building, and decision-making, to excel in your nursing career.
- Professional Development: Elevate your nursing career with a course that not only enhances your leadership skills but also opens doors to new career opportunities.
Presentations and Guided Case Studies Include:
- Talk is Cheap, but Communication is Pure Gold (9-10:30)
- Communication Techniques
- Dealing with Opposition
- Inspiring Your Team
- Workplace Resilience through the power of social connections (10:45-12:00)
- Increase productivity
- Enhance Retention
- Improve employee health
- Managing the Stress in Your Life (12:45-2:15)
- Positive vs Negative Stress
- Using stress to our advantage
- Controlling our response to stressful situations
- Enhancing Your Influence (2:30-4:00)
- Influencers Listen
- Lead by example
- Empower your team
Objectives:
- Categorize and differentiate among three distinct leadership styles.
- List three critical aspects they should learn about individuals they intend to influence.
- Determine two essential characteristics of effective leadership.
- Employ two specific tactics to enhance their capacity for influence.
- Assess the influence of social connections and friendship on workplace resilience.
- Identify at least two risk factors associated with loneliness in a workplace context.
- Outline at least four sequential steps to actively foster meaningful social connections in a professional setting.
- Evaluate the impact of stress on their professional growth and development.
- Identify at least two risk factors associated with unmitigated stress.
- Construct at least four strategies for effectively managing and mitigating stressful situations.
- Identify at least 3 ways to improve their communication techniques
- Recall at least 2 strategies to find common ground with those who hold opposing views.
- List at least 2 practical steps to inspire others through the art of communication.
Mitigating Workplace Violence
Patient to staff aggression occurs, but it shouldn’t be thought of as just part of a caregivers’ job. Tools for prevention and response to client aggression are critical for promoting worker safety and satisfaction. This interactive, application-based training will explore some of the reasons for patient aggression, provide strategies for violence prevention, de-escalation, and during incident response. We will address post-incident response strategies that promote the prevention of future incidents as well. The role of policy, consistent and effective communication, and a workplace violence prevention culture will be explored. Interactive learning experiences and discussions will help participants apply these important concepts.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Identify at least two physical indications that a patient is escalating.
- Recall at least two tactics to de-escalate a tense patient interaction.
- Identify at least two safety communication tools.
Physical Assessments of Older Adults
Please contact Amy for more information regarding this topic.
Comprehensive Dementia Care Workshop
In the complex landscape of early dementia recognition and treatment, healthcare providers face multifaceted challenges. From the art of differentiating dementia to guiding patients and families through challenges, the journey demands a versatile skill set. In this session, dementia expert Amy Siple will provide the latest evidence for your pivotal role in recognizing and screening, prescribing and managing medications, supporting the family, collaborating with specialists, and more.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify at least two considerations in the clinical evaluation of dementia.
- Differentiate between at least three types of dementia.
- Identify at least three nonpharmacologic care considerations for the client with dementia.
- Identify at least three pharmacologic care considerations for the clients with dementia.
- Recall the impact of an ability-centered care framework
- Identify at least three ways to promote resident dignity and self-determination
- Name at least three medical and social risk factors of residents with dementia
- At least two considerations in promoting meaningful activities for residents with dementia